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Topic: al-Qaeda

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January 10, 2013
3:23 pm

Freed Iranian hostages who were captured by the Syrian rebels since August, after their release in a prisoner swap in Damascus on Wednesday. (photo credit: AP/SANA)

Foul weather strands freed Iranian prisoners in Syria

US State Department says men liberated in swap are members of the Revolutionary Guard

January 9, 2013
12:14 pm

Syrian President Bashar Assad gestures as speaks at the Opera House in central Damascus, Syria, last month (photo credit: AP/SANA)

Syria berates West for rejecting Assad peace plan

International community slammed the president’s initiative, delivered in a rare speech Sunday, ‘before even having the time to translate it,’ claims Damascus

January 8, 2013
11:31 pm

US ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens (photo credit: YouTube screen capture)

Amid faltering investigation, suspect in attack on US consulate in Benghazi freed

Tunisian student Ali Harzi, 26, was one of the only people held in connection with the attack

January 2, 2013
1:11 pm

This video image shows Syrian rebels with a captured helicopter at an air base near the capital Damascus in November, 2012 (photo credit: AP Photo/Ugarit News via AP video)

Syrian rebels renew assault on northern airbase

Opposition forces have stepped up attacks on military airports in recent weeks in an effort to whittle-down the Assad regime’s air superiority

By Bassem Mroue

January 1, 2013
2:05 am

Senators Joseph Lieberman and Susan Collins presenting the Benghazi report in Washington on Monday. (photo credit: AP/Susan Walsh)

Intelligence community behind fuzzy Benghazi reports, Senate finds

Committee report also concludes State Department was wrong to keep consulate open despite terror warnings

By Larry Margasak

December 31, 2012
7:56 pm

Hezbollah supporters wave flags and hold up Arabic banners that read, "At your service God's prophet; America equals terrorism; and America does not equal freedom," during an anti-US rally in Beirut, Lebanon, in September (photo credit: AP/Hussein Malla)

Hezbollah’s cocaine jihad

From the web Ynet News: South American drug cartels are in cahoots with Islamic terror organizations, which are eager to execute attacks against American, Israeli, Jewish and Western targets

December 31, 2012
9:47 am

US Ambassador to Yemen Gerald M. Feierstein, left, shakes hands with a Yemeni army officer during a visit to Abyan, Yemen. Al-Qaida's branch in Yemen has offered to pay tens of thousands of dollars to anyone who kills Feierstein or an American soldier in the country, according to an audio produced by the group's media arm, the al-Malahem Foundation, and posted on militant websites Saturday, December 29, 2012. (photo credit: AP/Hani Mohammed, File)

Al-Qaeda puts gold bounty on head of Jewish US ambassador in Yemen

Terror group also offers some $23,000 to anyone who kills an American soldier

December 23, 2012
9:51 pm

Syrian Christians fear bleak future after Assad

Many worry that Syria will become another Iraq, with Christians caught in the crossfire between rival Islamic groups

By Barbara Surk

December 15, 2012
8:17 pm

Suicide bombers armed with rockets kill four in Pakistan

Militants fire three rockets at Peshawar airport, on the edge of the country’s tribal region; 30 injured; five militants killed

By JAMAL KHAN

December 11, 2012
10:23 am

US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton pauses during a news conference at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Wednesday, December 5. (photo credit: AP/Kevin Lamarque, Pool)

Clinton cancels Mideast trip due to stomach virus

William Burns to take secretary’s place on visits to Morocco, Tunisia and the United Arab Emirates

December 9, 2012
4:45 pm

Illustrative photo of an American MQ9 Predator drone in Afghanistan (photo credit: CC BY AN HONORABLE GERMAN, Flickr)

Pakistan: US drone kills senior al-Qaeda leader

Abu Zaid al-Kuwaiti became the al-Qaeda second-in-command earlier this year after his predecessor was killed in another missile strike

December 8, 2012
10:34 pm

Deputy Secretary of States William Burns, left, and Sen. John McCain, right, answer questions during the International Institute of Strategic Studies (IISS) conference in Manama, Bahrain, Saturday. The IISS Manama conference will discuss the security situation in the Syrian region among other topics. (photo credit: AP/Hasan Jamali)

At Bahrain summit, US says it won’t pivot away from the Middle East

As Arab states call for stronger action against Syria, American delegates stress that political ties and energy needs bind Washington to a region full of ‘threat and promise’

By Reem Khalifa

December 8, 2012
7:53 am

US drone strike kills senior Al-Qaeda commander, say tribal sources in Pakistan

From the web Pakistani security officials confirm death of top terrorist, but not identity, reports Reuters

December 8, 2012
6:18 am

Footage from a video that purportedly shows a bombing carried out by Jabhat al-Nusra in Damascus in August (photo credit: YouTube screen capture)

US may label al-Qaeda-inspired Syrian rebel group a Foreign Terrorist Organization

Al-Nusra Front, a Salafi organization pushing for an Islamic state in Syria, is notorious for suicide bombings against the Assad regime

By Michal Shmulovich

December 2, 2012
5:51 pm

7 killed in Homs car bombing

Several critically wounded in attack in central Syrian city, activists say

By Jamal Halaby

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